Mayor Cantrell accused of improperly stalling officer promotions

Moreno, Morrell ask New Orleans IG to expand sexual assault inquiry into Cantrell aide

New Orleans City Council President JP Morrell and Vice-President Helena Moreno Thursday asked the Inspector General to determine if Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration terminated a woman’s contract with the city in retaliation for accusing a top Cantrell aide of sexual assault. In an April 3 letter to IG Edward Mitchel, Morrell and Moreno specifically asked to expand his ongoing investigation into the sexual assault investigation, which the t…

New report accuses Mayor Latoya Cantrell of improperly halting New Orleans Police Department officer promotions

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — A new report from the New Orleans Civil Service Commission finds that New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell tried to manipulate police department promotions. The ruling states that the mayor instructed NOPD Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick to pause the process back in September because Cantrell said the deputy chiefs were biased in the way they ranked the candidates for promotion. Ultimately, Kirkpatrick decided to bring in an ou…

Mayor Cantrell accused of improperly stalling officer promotions

The New Orleans Civil Service Commission has ruled that New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell improperly stalled NOPD officer promotions.

Civil Service: Mayor Cantrell wrongly intervened in police promotions

Mayor Cantrell pressured NOPD to alter its promotion process, but the Civil Service Commission says her bias claims were unfounded. It’s her fourth misconduct ruling

Improving the promotional process for supervisors

Mike Geier at his 2005 promotion ceremony, as his wife and the Albuquerque chief of police prepared to pin on his lieutenant bars (Mike Geier) I  took my first promotional test for sergeant in 1978, when I only 24 years old and had three years on the job. I finished ninth out of the top 10, but the list expired after three years, and I never got promoted until a few years later. Even back then, I noticed many limitations and deficiencies in that…